{"id":321188,"date":"2026-04-19T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=321188"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:29:34","slug":"long-before-friendslop-portal-2-made-co-op-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/long-before-friendslop-portal-2-made-co-op-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Before Friendslop, Portal 2 Made Co-Op Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2&#8217;s release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There was a time within the PlayStation 3\/Xbox 360 era when Valve was spoiling us with games, packaging some excellent titles in The Orange Box and bringing us back-to-back Left 4 Dead entries. But the corporate hit a stride with the 2011 release of Portal 2, which could be its finest accomplishment of that generation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following up from 2007&#8217;s Portal, Valve would still have had a success if it had only made and released the single-player campaign, however the developers went the additional mile with the addition of a full-fledged co-op campaign&#8211;which itself would have been an equally worthy sequel to Portal by itself, and looking back, was a harbinger for cooperative and social games trending today.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed Reading at GameSpot<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2&#8217;s release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy. There was a time within the PlayStation 3\/Xbox 360 era when Valve was spoiling us with games, packaging some excellent titles in The Orange Box and bringing us back-to-back Left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[4833,1877,50774,2413,19006],"class_list":["post-321188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-cool","tag-coop","tag-friendslop","tag-long","tag-portal"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321191,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321188\/revisions\/321191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}